TBILISI — Georgia’s parliament has branded the 19th-century killings of the Muslim Circassian minority by Russia’s tsarist forces as genocide in a resolution likely to further strain Tbilisi’s ties with Moscow. Originally from the northwest Caucasus, Circassians say 1.5 million of their ancestors were systematically killed in a 1860-64 military campaign to conquer the Caucasus Mountain area on the southern border of today’s Russia. The deaths were recorded by Russian […]